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If you remember fixing a Y2K bug, you must be an old geek.
by njloof 10y ago
If you remember fixing a Y2K bug, you must be an old geek.
- dexterdog 10y agoThere are plenty of people who worked on Y2K bugs who are not even old enough to be a US President.
- pc86 10y agoI mean that sounds neat but the math doesn't match up. You have to be 35 to be President, so being generous let's take a 35 year old now, so they were born in 1982 give or take (2017-35). They would have had to get a programming job right out of HS and even then best case it would have been halfway through 1999. More accurately, they likely didn't enter the workforce until 2004 or 2005.
- ccallebs 10y agoY2K bugs didn't disappear when the clock struck midnight on December 31. Many appeared for the first time.
- pc86 10y agoWho was fixing Y2K bugs in 2004/5?
- auntienomen 10y agoOr they'd have to have been programming as college students. This wasn't uncommon when I was in school.